Imagine a browser where you type in “Taylor Swift” and it doesn’t even admit that her website exists. I write about Atlas, ChatGPT’s new anti-web browser that should come with a warning label. www.anildash.com/2025/10/22/a...

People recognised as refugees fleeing persecution & granted the right to live in the UK to be denied the right to be joined safely by their spouse & children. This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Tory party’s long journey away from science, reason, responsibility, common sense and truth is complete

Those breakfast TV news tickers in full...

Next up, Department of Energy to be renamed the Department of Warm.

I switch on the TV and on the BBC are Roy Orbison and Bruce Springsteen on stage together... and that's definitely Elvis Costello in the background... and is that Tom Waits on keys? What a blast. Springsteen is grinning from ear to ear.

Happy "Daniel Hannan is Hilariously Wrong About Everything" Day to those who celebrate. www.reaction.life/p/britain-lo...

Warner Bros. Discovery to split into two companies: Warner; and Bros. Discovery, a streaming service dedicated entirely to late '80s boy bands.

Watching the Musk/Trump feud feels like being one of these onlookers in Mothra vs Godzilla.

Depressing to see Yvette Cooper is as punitive a Home Secretary as any of her Tory forebears. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

May the Fourth be with you... speedysnail.com/2025/05/thes...

the reason why these people believe in “the woke mind virus” and think of others as “NPCs” is because they have literally fried their brains in private group chats with people who share the same half dozen opinions

Octopuses are incredibly genetically complex and likely more intelligent than an AI will ever be, but none of these Silicon Valley bros is pushing a human-free future ruled by cephalopods.

Why did the Ukraine peace plan fail? open.substack.com/pub/arthursn...

The most powerful people and companies in the world have successfully orchestrated one of the most damaging and stupid self owns imaginable: www.404media.co/big-tech-bac...

We need to talk about American BBQ radicalisation www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

OpenAI's move to allow generating "Ghibly stlye" images isn't just a cute PR stunt. It is an expression of dominance and the will to reject and refuse democratic values. It is a vulgar display of power. https://tante.cc/2025/03/28/vulgar-display-of-power/

I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired. It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵

chatgpt has fully broken-through to every facet of the corporate environment. I'm spending a not-insignificant amount of my time every week now explaining to people that just because chatgpt told you that something was possible doesn't mean that it a) is or b) even exists

Baudrillard called it in 1990.

"What’s happening in the US is some sort of weird hybrid of the kind of power grabs we’ve seen in the tech industry, combined with a more traditional collapse of democratic institutions. The destruction is far more systematic and dangerous than many realize.”

The attempted mugging of a visiting president was about the world war that Musk, Trump, and Vance have chosen. If we attend to what Vance and Trump said yesterday, we can work our way to the unreason of American policy, and to the chaos that will follow. snyder.substack.com/p/the-war-tr...

looking at @thecccuk.bsky.social tweet from this morning, I'm struck by how much the estimates of the costs of #NetZero have reduced by. I have gotten used to quoting around 1% of GDP to get to Net Zero by 2050 (from the 6th budget) so this is huge. Also, let's compare to Brexit...

🧵Three years ago, when Russia invaded Ukraine, EU, UK and other nations vowed to wage economic war, via the toughest sanctions in history. So... how's that going? We've spent months documenting what ACTUALLY happened. Here's a thread of our investigations on the REAL story on sanctions... 👇

Once again I am leaving the Munich Security Conference in a low mood. Amongst all the noise, the US signalled their plans for Europe, so things are becoming clearer. But things are clearly not good. This is what we now know, and what we have to do about it:🧵1/17

"We abandon the body and what it learns by being in the world - the physical world - at our peril." I wrote about the basements of the @britishlibrary.bsky.social, what I learned there about historical method - and why ChatGPT can only ever be garbage. 🗃 #histsci buttondown.com/surekhadavie...

When it comes to tackling climate change, the response to questions of "what's in it for us" is "a world with us in it". speedysnail.com/2025/01/natu...

New study finds that frequent use of AI tools encourages offloading cognitive tasks and reduces critical thinking. Higher AI usage correlated with lower critical thinking skills, especially in younger users. www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/15...

The Anti-War-on-Christmas campaigners have it all wrong. "Winterval" is the perfect word for these in-between days.

Spider-Man Spider-Man Riding through the glen Spider-Man Spider-Man No let’s try again Robin Hood Robin Hood Does whatever A robin could

THREAD This Is The Story Of The The Pernicious Rise of AI-Generated Papers and their Online Impact An Incomplete History Told In The Voice of Documentarian Adam Curtis 1/31

Word of the year... speedysnail.com/2024/12/skib...

Just turned on the TV and up popped The One Show, and there's Andrew Ridgley on the couch talking about "Last Christmas"—are they TRYING to Whamageddon 3 million viewers in one hit? (I escaped in the nick of time...)

THREAD: How to check if the screenshot of a social media post is real or fake? Fake screnshots of online posts regularly mislead people. So, here's a simple guide on how you can quickly check if a screenshot of a post attributed to an account is genuine or fake before falling for or sharing it.

Today Guardian and Observer journalists are on strike over plans to sell the Observer to a loss-making digital start up and put its journalism behind a paywall. 🧵 How can you support us? SHARE our posts WRITE to [email protected] JOIN US - there's cake!

It’s an annual tradition, a free to download and print for yourself Advent calendar. This year it’s an Aardvent calendar.

Data is never ‘collected’, it is only *generated*. This isn’t merely a pedantic semantic gripe; by misrepresenting ‘data’ as something that exists in nature & has only to be scooped up, evasion of accountability for data harms has already begun Data doesn’t exist until someone constructs it

For some reason, contemplating the use of AI in higher education this evening brought to mind this scene from one of my favourite Coen Brothers films... www.youtube.com/watch?v=xujJ...

Now that I have dozens of new followers from #mefi thanks to a starter pack collated by @kattullus.bsky.social I'd better actually post here, rather than using Bsky just for reading. Here, have a miscellaneous links roundup... speedysnail.com/2024/11/the-...

NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next. I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social 1/ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Analysis of why Trump won which ignores the fact that the far right have been pumping algorithm-fuelled hate through Twitter, Facebook, TikTok and YouTube for years is deeply unserious. We have QAnon politicians in office, for goodness‘ sake. Many people’s connection with reality has been shattered.

Apropos of nothing, here are some of the actual jobs Hitler's top guys had before he put them in charge of Germany: Von Ribbentrop - wine salesman. Added the 'von' to his name cos he wanted to be an aristocrat Goebbels: Bank clerk Himmler: Chicken farmer/ manure processing plant worker 1/2

In response to OpenAI’s recent ‘A Student’s Guide to Writing with ChatGPT’, Arthur Perret (maître de conferénces, Jean Moulin Lyon 3) writes a line-by-line rebuttal — A Student’s Guide to Not Writing with ChatGPT www.arthurperret.fr/blog/2024-11...

This reminds me of when, during covid, when people would say they'd have Zoom calls with no trousers on. Except this is so much better.

🧵Next week, you will see people using something called Benford's Law to try to prove election fraud. ⛔️These people are wrong⛔️ I am a scientist who has published on Benford's Law. Let me tell you what it is and why what they are doing is mathematically incorrect. 1/

This explains a lot. I asked an AI image generator to show me "a step-by-step tutorial on how to draw hands".